From the Trib: The public version of drawing new congressional maps for Texas started [Thursday] morning with committee hearings and the unveiling of a proposal from a coalition that insists at least …

From Politico: A bitter, behind-the-scenes fight has broken out among Texas Republicans over redistricting, pitting Rep. Lamar Smith against longtime colleague Rep. Joe Barton. The dispute is over the …

In case you were wondering. The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal that calls for greatly increasing the House of Representatives to reduce discrepancies in the population of congressional districts …

Peter Levine makes a mathematical argument for expanding the size of Congress, which is a subject I’ve mentioned before. It turns out that the size of legislatures around the world is usually the cube …

Last year around this time, I noted a report by Election Data Services that said Texas could be in line for as many as four new Congressional seats in the 2010 reapportionment. This year’s data is now …